Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965^[1]) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002.

Daniels was born Bradford, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers.^[1] Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother a secretary.^[1] She worked for NatWest, achieving promotion to assistant bank manager,^[1] a post which she gave up in 1994, when her triplets were born.^[1]

She first reached the North Pole on in the 1997 McVities Penguin Polar Relay,^[2] and has been there at least six times in all.^[1]

Her first attempt to reach the North Pole solo, walking from Russia, was called off in 2005.^[3]

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 January 2007,^[4] and was awarded an honorary DUniv degree Staffordshire University in the same year.^[2]

She led Catlin Arctic Survey expeditions in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with Pen Hadow.

She is the mother of four children, three of them (two girls and a boy) triplets from her first marriage, plus a daughter from a second partner.^[1]